Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v6.c40.s5.11

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At Nāl, also, nothing more than the remains of the stone-walls of some structures, possibly rooms and courtyards, have been found. 'The word "room" is used for convenience for it is by no means certain that they are "rooms" in the ordinary sense of that word. The walls are at right angles and roughly oriented to the cardinal points. None are of any great height. In all probability the stone-walls were merely foundations. Any superstructures must have been of mud, brick or some light material which had entirely disappeared. No obvious entrances to the rooms can be traced. No traces of any roofing material or the charcoal of beams or rafters were discovered in this area. Most of the rooms had earth floors, but two rooms have pavements of small water-worn boulders and one had a particularly solid flooring consisting of three courses of stones carefully laid over a foundation of gravel.'⁵